Save over $200 at the Adelaide Show this year!
It’s Spring, which for Adeladians means “The Royal Adelaide Show is coming!” From Friday 30 August to Sunday 8 September thousands of families will spend hundreds of...

As technology improvements are made every day to ensure the safety of personal information, scammers have evolved to be evermore deceptive in their pursuit of gaining access to your personal details.
Scammers can use you to...

Financial independence and a world of choices and opportunities await you… but before you splurge all your money like one of those ‘minute to win it’ shopping competitions lets chat about how can you set yourself...

Some years ago, a couple living eight hours’ drive from their capital city wanted to help their two sons to understand money, so they opened an LLL Children’s Savings Account for each of them.
They thought...

Now what?
When you were growing up, you undoubtedly got your hands on tangible cash pretty often.
In an increasingly cashless society, it’s easy to forget that children haven’t - and probably won’t.
Children may miss...

By Pastor Wayne George
It’s not a secret that, generally speaking, men are not always known to wear their hearts on their sleeves or talk openly about what’s going on inside.
As a result, when going...

...you’d better not pout, I'm telling you why.
With all your pre-holiday activities planned and budgeted for, it’s now time to turn your attention to the actual Christmas celebrations themselves.
Rushing out to buy the gifts...

No need to wait… transfer your funds in near real time with Faster Payments through the New Payments Platform (NPP).
The LLL is one of the first financial institutions in Australia to offer the NPP. It...

In recent times, interest in miniature supermarket figurines has surged. Before your child loses interest in their novelty, how about turning the collectible craze into an educational game?
Such as: grab a supermarket catalogue and let...

Living on a budget can sometimes mean looking for alternative ways of enjoying the things you love that would normally eat into your funds. A library for instance, can help you stay on budget with their...

As I sit down to dinner in the evenings watching my ravenous pre-schoolers push their broccoli and peas around on the plate with their fork, refusing to eat and eventually letting them plop onto the table...

What child doesn’t love playing with dirt?
The lucky kids at St Paul’s Lutheran Child Care Centre (Nundah, Queensland) now have their very own Native Adventure Play Yard where they can play with dirt and plants...

In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 5 of the series. This is part 5 of the series. To...

In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 4 of the series. To read parts 1, 2 and 3 click...

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In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 3 of the series. To read parts 1 and 2, click here.
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In order to either confirm or dispel myths about millennials and home ownership, we surveyed 22 millennials about their financial situation. This is part 2 of the series. To read part 1, click here.
When asked...

In 2017, the LLL provided $105,000 in ‘earthcare’ grants to Lutheran Education Australia to be used for environmental projects within Lutheran schools.
One school that was successful in winning a grant was Our Saviour Lutheran School...

Andrew Waldhuter and Marie Pawsey have been visiting and talking about LLL, and putting up displays of LLL and Lutheran Tract Mission materials, in three districts. They have answered lots of questions. (If you have a...

How does the LLL facilitate financial giving free of charge to the church?
As the financial institution for the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA), LLL has been offering one particular service – REG – free of...

What have you given up for lent this year?
We asked around the office, and some of the sacrifices being made are:
Chocolate (from an extremely dedicated chocoholic)
Shopping at garage sales and op shops
Junk...

Confused about why your insurance keeps going up even though you don’t make a claim? Here’s a handy guide on how insurance works…
We can’t change your home or car insurance policy costs, (and sorry we...

Shrove Tuesday started as the day to eat up all the sugar and fat-filled foods that we were about to ‘give up for Lent’. So syrupy pancakes fried in delicious butter certainly fit the bill!!
[Traditionally...

It's been a big year for the LLL in 2017.
You can read about how we have supported the Lutheran Church Together in Mission, and about our financial results and strategic direction in the Annual Report.
...

The LLL International Mission Support Fund provides an annual ongoing gift to be used by LCA International Mission ‘in spreading the good news of the gospel’, now including capacity building in education. The fund generated $284,859...

by Jonathan Krause
The LLL sponsored the Australian Lutheran World Service event ‘Walk My Way’ with a $5,000 grant in July 2017.
Why would anyone walk 26 kilometres down the steep slopes of the Adelaide Hills...

The LLL provided a Mission Resource Grant of $5000 (through the South Australia - Northern Territory District) to Bethlehem congregation in Pinnaroo. Read on to see what they did with it….
by Pastor Dan Rooney
“It’s...

This week is ‘stay smart online’ week. We know that many of our depositors are wary of divulging their personal information online. And you know what? It’s good to be wary. That makes you safe.
However,...

For some families, offset accounts can be very effective in reducing the amount of interest paid on their mortgage. Offset accounts work by offsetting the amount of money within the accounts against the mortgage, in essence...

Involving your children in nature-based-play is the modern-mother’s goal, right? It certainly seems so if you do any Insta-scrolling or Facebooking in your spare time.
So, if you want to get some insta-worthy photos these spring...

In May and June 2017, the LLL conducted our first ever customer survey. While we regularly speak with our depositors in churches and schools, we have never formally sought your feedback. We had a fantastic response...

One of the first things you’re asked to do when you sign up to anything on the internet (email, social media, internet banking etc) is to come up with a password.
The Australian Government recommends protecting...

Save over $200 at the Adelaide Show this year!
It’s Spring, which for Adeladians means “The Royal Adelaide Show is coming!” From 1 – 10 September thousands of families will spend hundreds of dollars on tickets,...

We are using cash less than ever. When we actually need cash, it’s annoying. Think parking meters, pocket money, and $10 EFTPOS minimums...!!
Of course the digital economy is ‘the way the world is’ now, but...

In our recent depositor's survey, you told us that one of your main areas of financial concern was internet security. Here is our first article in a series of internet security articles to help you safely...

On Saturday 19 March 2016, 193 people (including Sonya and her sons) came to Elevation, the annual training day for children's, youth and family ministry run by Lutheran Youth of Queensland. Each participant attended four sessions...

In today’s world of electronic payments and internet banking, it is difficult to teach children the value of money. When you’re at the shops, how often do you pay with actual cash? Australians only use cash...

Immanuel College’s new Senior School, The Margaret Ames Centre, has brought a new era of education and learning to the campus.
The LLL provides low interest loans to members of the Lutheran Church of Australia -...

The dog and the bone is an Aesop Fable, which has here been adapted to an Australian setting.
[Aesop’s Fables, along with parables, are well-known forms of story.]
Read the fable like you are watching a...

This story variation is for telling business-style stories which want to make people think about what they could do.
Orientation - who does the story happen to and what is the time and place that the...

From congregations across Australia and New Zealand, so many requests were coming in for the NEW Evangelism workshops that it was not possible to present them all in person.
An innovative project has now made this...